US CITIZENSHIP REQUIRED FOR THIS POSITION: YesRELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be availableCLEARANCE TYPE: SecretTRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time

Description

Join Northrop Grumman on our continued mission to push the boundaries of possible across land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace. Enjoy a culture where your voice is valued and start contributing to our team of passionate professionals providing real-life solutions to our world’s biggest challenges. We take pride in creating purposeful work and allowing our employees to grow and achieve their goals every day by Defining Possible. With our competitive pay and comprehensive benefits, we have the right opportunities to fit your life and launch your career today.
We are looking for you to join our team as a Software/Principal Software Engineer based out of Rolling Meadows, IL. As a Software/Principal Software Engineer at Northrop Grumman you will have a challenging and rewarding opportunity to be a part of our Enterprise-wide digital transformation. Through the use of Model-based Engineering, DevSecOps and Agile practices we continue to evolve how we deliver critical national defense products and capabilities for the warfighter. Our success is grounded in our ability to embrace change, move quickly and continuously drive innovation.
The DevOps Solutions SceneGen (Scene Generation) organization within the Northrop Grumman Mission Systems pushes the boundaries of innovation, redefines engineering capabilities, and drives advances in various sciences. Our team is chartered with providing high fidelity virtual hardware and test automation capabilities to our customers to enable testing of embedded software without real hardware. Come be a part of our mission!
The DevOps Solutions SceneGen team seeks talented Software Engineers with an interest in video game engines, scientific visualization, image processing and/or tools development to join our growing team in Rolling Meadows, IL. As a Software Engineer, you will join our diverse team and be responsible for architecture, design, implementation, and integration of game engine technology to simulate radiometrically correct scenes for our mission critical sensors and algorithm development. You will be working with a highly innovative and fast paced team.
This position can be filled at the Software or Principal Software level based on qualifications below:

Basic Qualifications for Software Engineer:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or similar engineering discipline with a minimum of 2+ years of engineering experience, or a Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or similar engineering discipline.
• Experience with C++ or similar language using object-oriented development
• Experience with scripting languages (Python, Bash, Batch, etc)
• Experience with software development
• Experience with software design patterns
• Familiarity with game engines, scientific visualization, or image processing
• Familiarity with automated testing and continuous integration frameworks
• Familiarity with various version control systems (Github, Bitbucket, ClearCase) and Agile software planning tools (Rally, Jira, etc)
• US Citizen and ability to obtain and maintain a government security clearance

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or similar engineering discipline with a minimum of 5+ years of engineering experience, or a Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or similar engineering discipline with a minimum of 3+ years of engineering experience.
• Experience with C++ or similar language using object-oriented development
• Experience with scripting languages (Python, Bash, Batch, etc)
• Experience with software development
• Experience with software design patterns
• Familiarity with game engines, scientific visualization, or image processing
• Familiarity with automated testing and continuous integration frameworks
• Familiarity with various version control systems (Github, Bitbucket, ClearCase) and Agile software planning tools (Rally, Jira, etc)
• US Citizen and ability to obtain and maintain a government security clearance.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Software architecture skills (design patterns, objected oriented oesign)
• Experience with general purpose GPU (gpGPU) development
• Experience with video game engine development
• Experience with video game development
• Experience with physics engines
• Active Secret clearance

Salary Range: $78,600.00 - $118,000.00Salary Range 2: $96,900.00 - $145,300.00
Employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus in addition to basepay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results.Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives. In addition, Northrop Grumman provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.
The health and safety of our employees and their families is a top priority. The company encourages employees to remain up-to-date on their COVID-19 vaccinations. U.S. Northrop Grumman employees may be required, in the future, to be vaccinated or have an approved disability/medical or religious accommodation, pursuant to future court decisions and/or government action on the currently stayed federal contractor vaccine mandate under Executive Order 14042 https://www.saferfederalworkforce.gov/contractors/.
Northrop Grumman is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. For our complete EEO/AA and Pay Transparency statement, please visit http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO. U.S. Citizenship is required for most positions.